>>714144082 (OP)Imagine the potential kino...
>you survive for like 30 minutes>elites stop showing up, just some grunts and the odd jackal>the sky darkens>you can see massive elite ships lowering from above>your fight is done, there's nothing more you can do>enemies stop spawning and a one minute countdown begins>you can look around your battlefield, the countless dead elites lay around you>then it ends and a cutscene begins>your spartan limps to a nearby hill and sits down, looking up at the ships>he takes his helmet off, head just out of view>does one last salute before the elites finally glass the planet, leaving nothing but the helmet like the original endingIf only they did this... could have been a great way to reward good gameplay, 30 minutes is quite a bit so it'd be a fitting reward.